Chess Tutor
About The Job
The Varsity Tutors Live Learning Platform has thousands of students looking for online Chess tutors nationally. As a tutor on the Varsity Tutors Platform, you'll have the flexibility to set your own schedule, earn competitive rates, and make a real impact on students' academic success and understanding. All from the comfort of your home.
Why Join Our Platform?
- Earn incrementally higher pay for each session with the same student, reaching up to $40/hour.
- Get paid up to twice per week, ensuring fast and reliable compensation for the tutoring sessions you conduct and invoice.
- Set your own hours and tutor as much as you'd like.
- Tutor remotely using our purpose-built Live Learning Platform. No commuting required.
- Get matched with students best‑suited to your teaching style and expertise.
- Our AI‑powered Tutor Copilot enhances your sessions with real‑time instructional support, lesson generation, and engagement features, helping you save prep time and focus on impactful teaching.
- We handle the logistics—you just invoice for your tutoring sessions, and we take care of payments.
What We Look For In a Chess Tutor
- Advanced Subject Mastery: Deep knowledge of chess opening principles, tactical motifs including forks, pins, skewers, and discovered attacks, positional strategy, endgame technique, pawn structures, piece coordination, and competitive chess rules. Ability to explain opening systems, middlegame planning, and endgame theory while preparing students for scholastic tournaments, rated competitions, and strategic thinking development.
- Conceptual Teaching & Problem‑Solving: Skilled at teaching tactical pattern recognition, strategic planning, and game analysis. Guides students through identifying tactical opportunities, evaluating positions, developing opening repertoires, executing common endgame techniques, and analyzing their own games for improvement. Emphasizes critical thinking and decision‑making skills while connecting chess to logical reasoning, patience, and problem‑solving skills applicable beyond the board.
- Curriculum Awareness & Adaptive Instruction: Familiar with chess instruction progressions and common challenges such as transitioning from tactical to positional play, calculating variations accurately, and managing tournament time pressure. Adapts instruction using puzzle practice, game analysis, and progressive difficulty exercises to support students from absolute beginners learning piece movement through advanced tournament players seeking rating improvement.
- Effective Teaching Methods: Ability to identify concepts students commonly struggle with, explain material using multiple approaches, and adapt instruction to meet individual learning needs and styles.
- Strong communication skills and a friendly, engaging teaching style.
- Ability to adapt to different learning styles and student needs.
Ways To Connect With Students
- 1-on-1 Online Tutoring – Provide personalized instruction to individual students.
- Instant Tutoring – Accept on‑demand tutoring requests whenever you're available.
About Varsity Tutors And 1-on-1 Online Tutoring
Our mission is to transform the way people learn by leveraging advanced technology, AI, and the latest in learning science to create personalized learning experiences. Through 1-on-1 Online Tutoring, students receive customized instruction that helps them achieve their learning goals. Our platform is designed to match students with the right tutors, fostering better outcomes and a passion for learning.
Please note: Varsity Tutors does not contract in: Alaska, California, Colorado, Delaware, Hawaii, Maine, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Vermont, West Virginia or Puerto Rico.
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